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Fish Sightings & Current River Fish

Fish Sightings


Chinook Salmon

In recent years, Salmon have been spotted migrating up the Rouge River. They have been documented traveling over 22 miles up the Lower Rouge River into the City of Wayne. After the photograph was taken and the fish was documented, it was returned safely to its native environment.

 

 

 

Current River Fish


Common Carp

Catfish

  • Black bullhead
  • Yellow bullhead
  • Brown bullhead
  • Channel catfish
  • Stonecat
  • Northern madtom

Drums

  • Freshwater drum

Channel Catfish

Gars

  • Longnose gar

Herrings

  • Gizzard shad

Killifish

  • Starhead topminnow

Common Shiner

Lampreys

  • American brook lamprey

Minnows

  • Central stoneroller
  • Goldfish
  • Redside dace
  • Spotfin shiner
  • Common carp
  • Common shiner
  • Redfin shiner

  • Yellow Bullhead (top)
    Stonecat (bottom)
    Hornyhead chub
  • Golden shiner
  • Emerald shiner
  • Blackchin shiner
  • Spottail shiner
  • Northern redbelly dace
  • Bluntnose minnow
  • Fathead minnow
  • Blacknose dace
  • Creek chub
Last Updated: 8/31/01

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The Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project is funded, in part, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Grants #XP995743-01, -02, -03, -04, -05, -06, -07 and C-264000-01.